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In 2012, we were criticized for going after AD-69 candidates Michele Martinez and Julio Perez for disclosing their then terrible personal financial failings that would cause voters to question whether they’d be a good steward of taxpayer dollars in Sacramento as a member of the state assembly. Both are Democrats. Primary voters decided “no” to…

Usually candidates with the means to loan their campaigns large sums of money wait until the end of their campaign to pay themselves back. That’s not the case for AD-69 candidate and Santa Ana City Councilwoman Michele Martinez. Martinez loaned her Assembly campaign $15,700 on December 31, 2011. The timing of the loans, and their…

Â Art Pedroza has declared an end to the Orange County blogs wars and made himself a martyr to the cause.Â While it’s all great theater, it’s a song many of us have heard before.Â There isn’t a blogwar with the Orange Juice and Art, but there is the matter of a pending lawsuit.Â And…

Irvine Council member Steven Choi, a struggling Republican candidate for the AD-70 race, is using a letter from Orange Juice publisher Art Pedroza to tout Choi’s candidacy. Choi, who’s his own best contributor to his own campaign, must be getting stir crazy in that tiny Woodbridge apartment.

With Orange Countyâ€™s real estate and mortgage industry-driven economy in shambles and local home foreclosures on the rise, you might think that our Republican politicians would want to distance themselves from those who are profiting from the misery of Orange County voters who have lost or are about to lose their homes. Not so. The…

As Americans are being forced to choose between buying food for their children or keeping their pets, or between paying for pet food or for their utilities bills, the economic crisis means death for thousands â€” perhaps millions â€” of abandoned dogs and cats.